Flair Minimum

There's a movie called Office Space I liked in my B.C. days. There's a recurring bit in the movie about a girl who works at a restaurant where she's required to put on "flair". In other words, a bunch of pins, buttons, and other junk, all over her waitress outfit. She has a requirement of a bare minimum 15 pieces of flair, but her boss always encourages her to wear more flair. He's kind of a pest about it, always asking her if she wants to just get by doing the "bare minimum" or get into the spirit of the whole "flair thing" like everybody else. She obviously just wants to do the bare minimum, because really she thinks the flair is stupid, and he persists in condeming that person who just...does...the...bare...minimum.

Well I can understand how this girl's attitude was toward flair. I might just want to melt all my flair down into a tiny "flair ball" and chuck it in the garbage can!

But what's our attitude toward God?

Are we the kind of people who approach God's Word with the idea that we're going to look through it and see just how sinful we can be and still get to heaven. Sometimes people ask questions like "Can I be a Christian and still " or "God will forgive me if I do right?" or "How much am I required to give?" or "Do I really need to go to church that much?" Wrong questions. Wrong approach. The idea is not to see just how close we can cuddle up to sin and how much we can hold on to the world and still be right with God. We should examine our lives well to make sure we don't do this type of thing as Christians, for that is not how we are to act.

Our great and glorious God abhors sin and a lukewarm attitude, and, as his followers, so should we.

Our approach should not be to do the bare minimum and grudgingly put on Christian flair. No, it should be to pursue God with everything we've got! Sure, we're going to mess that up. But that doesn't mean we should settle for mediocrity and complacency in our walk with the Lord. The world is a huge current of water trying to knock us down and wash us away -- if we don't keep swimming against it, we're going to be crushed, defeated, and a far cry from the children of God we're supposed to be. So let's all pray for on another that we grow stronger in the Lord with each passing day and have our hearts and minds always set on him and his amazing grace and love!

Grace and Peace